This course is designed for the non-scientist to increase their scientific literacy on climate and climate change. We will discuss what "weather" is, why our planet has it, why we need it, and how we have learned to monitor, understand, and predict it. We will discuss the link between climate and weather, how weather prediction informs climate monitoring, what we know about the climate of the Earth, past and present, how we know it, and how that helps inform our perspective on future climate. We will then discuss how weather and climate information is used for decision-making by individuals, businesses, the military, local, state and national government, and what that implies for the scientists who work on these problems.